UCSF UCSF scientists are seeking to solve COVID-19’s greatest riddles with sophisticated imaging techniques that have found long-term immune activation throughout the body. UC San Francisco scientists have found that SARS-CoV-2 can linger in the body for years and could be driving a global epidemic in long COVID.
They’re also exploring the surprising long-term risks of getting COVID in pregnancy.
Assistant Professor of Medicine Michael Peluso, MD, heads UCSF’s LIINC program, short for “Long-term Impact of Infection with Novel Coronavirus,” a university-wide effort to understand one of COVID-19’s most enduring challenges. Peluso and Professor of Pediatrics Valerie Flaherman, MD, MPH, lead components of the National Institutes of Health’s long COVID consortium, RECOVER – or Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery.
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